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April 27, 2012

Daily Mobile Computing Feed – Apr 27, 2012

Daily aggregation of mobile computing news from @cloud_aware, mobileaware.net.

  • BYOD Programs Divide Employees, Businesses: Survey

    • eWeek While employees value consumerization of IT, businesses are hesitant due to perceived risks of BYOD programs. While bring your own device (BYOD) programs continue to grow and find favor among businesses of all sizes, issues like security still remain, … (more)

  • Enterasys preps BYOD management appliance

    • ZDNet UK (blog) The Enterasys Mobile IAM bring your own device (BYOD) appliance will become available in the UK on 1 June, Enterasys announced on Thursday. It is targeted at academic and health institutions that need to support multiple devices per individual users. (more)

  • Teaching mobile computing using Cabana

    • Mobile computing is a growing market and an area of increasing interest to students To answer our student demand we decided to develop a mobile computing … (more)

  • Chrome for Android Soon to Exit Beta

    • Midsize Insider A capable browser tailored to Android devices could give mobile computing (at least Android mobile computing) the flexibility we associate with the wired Internet. This would be a blow to the re-emerging walled garden model of captive consumers, … (more)

  • Enterasys Mobile IAM Will Address BYOD Challenges

    • eWeek Enterasys Networks in June will roll out a network solution designed to enable businesses, hospitals and educational institutions more easily and securely address the growing trend of bring-your-own-device (BYOD). Enterasys’ Mobile IAM product, … (more)

  • Are the rewards of BYOD worth the trouble?

    • FierceCIO If there was a buzzword-of-the-year contest, BYOD, or bring your own device, would probably win hands down. Talked about by CIOs and managers, as well as by fellow writers covering the technology beat, BYOD seems to have taken the enterprise and SMBs … (more)

  • Samsung Ice Cream Sandwich List Raises Concerns in the BYOD Era

    • Midsize Insider The availability of high-powered consumer devices is forcing a change in the IT World, as more and more companies adopt bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies that let employees use consumer smartphones and tablets on company systems. (more)

  • Asking the Right Questions About BYOD

    • IT Business Edge (blog) By date: There is a cottage industry developing in companies surveying IT
    and security experts to ask their opinions on bring your own device (BYOD). It can be argued that there is a cottage industry to that cottage industry in bloggers interpreting … (more)

  • Apple, Samsung Leave Only Crumbs, Says Raymond James

    • Barron’s (blog) … he observes, raising the question of how they will maintain the war chests they need to remain competitive: Overall, 1Q12 financial results were mixed for the handset/mobile computing industry, but essentially all the benefits accrued to Apple, … (more)

Daily Big Data Feed – Apr 27, 2012

Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.

Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 27, 2012

Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.

  • 2 more cloud myths busted: Lock-in and locked up

    • InfoWorld By David Linthicum | InfoWorld The world of cloud computing grows like a
    weed in summer, and many assumptions are being made that just aren’t correct. I’ve previously exposed four cloud myths you shouldn’t believe. Now it’s time for me to climb up on … (more)

  • How To Get Customers Thinking About Hybrid Cloud Services

    • CRN By George Watt, CA Technologies for, CRN Cloud computing does not have to
    be an all or nothing deal. Here, George Watt, VP of Strategy for Cloud Computing at CA, shows why customers are often more comfortable working with solution providers using … (more)

  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ships with cloud computing and enterprise desktop

    • enhancements V3.co.uk by Daniel Robinson Ubuntu developer Canonical has officially released Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the latest version of its enterprise-focused Linux distribution, which now includes provisioning and cloud computing features in its server build, and support for … (more)

  • ALTADYN(R) Adds Third Dimension to Facebook(R)

    • MarketWatch (press release) IRVINE, CA, Apr 27, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — ALTADYN(R) the leading provider of 3D web technology, today announced a new development platform. Offered in PaaS mode (Platform as a Service) on the cloud, the new platform has been designed for web … (more)

  • Software Company Moves to Matawan, Brings Job Opportunities

    • Patch.com By Chelsea Naso Twelve years ago a small software-as-a-service provider
    spun off of Comrise Technology in Hazlet with one goal: to make recruiting candidates and onboarding new employees extremely efficient for growing companies. (more)

  • Intuit to buy Demandforce for $423.5 million

    • Reuters (Reuters) – Intuit Inc, the maker of tax preparation software TurboTax, said it agreed to buy Demandforce, a software-as-a-service application provider, for $423.5 million in cash. “Demandforce sits at the sweet spot of Intuit’s small- and medium-sized … (more)

  • Say Hello to Windows Azure, The World’s Most Misunderstood Cloud

    • Wired News He recently moved to Northern California from Australia, looking to improve the fortunes of his startup, an ingenious operation known as Kaggle, and he soon found that most Silicon Valley software developers behaved like other Silicon Valley software … (more)

  • Cloud computing like ‘Wild West’

    • Minneapolis Star Tribune We talk about cloud computing as if the bits and bytes of our lives are stored somewhere up in the air, but, really, the “clouds” are terrestrial. What’s more up in the air are the laws that govern who can access your stuff and how. (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Fabled Google Drive Arrives, Creates Rights Panic

    • SYS-CON Media (press release) By Maureen O’Gara Google finally introduced its long-trumpeted cloud-based
    Google Drive Tuesday hours before Apple released its Q2 results. Drive happens to compete with iCloud and Apple’s results, which could have been, shall we say, edgy, … (more)

  • Cloud Computing and the Consumer

    • ITProPortal Even if consumers don’t know what cloud computing is, they’re probably using it. ‘Lick’ has a lot to answer for. In 1963 Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, ‘Lick’ to his friends, wrote a memo to his colleagues entitled ‘Members and Affiliates of the … (more)

  • How Cloud Computing Can Help Your Small Business

    • BostInno (blog) Large multinational firms have been excited about cloud computing for years. For them, cloud computing means freeing up technology resources, software, and hardware needed to build and run parts of their businesses. The move toward the cloud has … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Judge Plans to Tell Jury Java APIs Are Copyrighted

    • SYS-CON Media (press release) By Maureen O’Gara Judge Alsup – who really wishes Oracle and Google had
    settled so he wouldn’t have to hear the Java trial – is proposing to decide whether APIs are copyrightable himself and not have the jury wade into that legal brier patch. (more)

  • The Cloud Is Going to Be Huge: Winklevoss Twins

    • CNBC.com Cloud computing is the next big thing, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, of Winklevoss Capital Partners, told CNBC on Squawk Box. “We think the cloud is going to be huge, it already is,” Tyler said. The Winklevoss twins are widely known for their role in … (more)

  • VMware VCloud Director 1.0 Torrent Download Results

    • VMware VCloud Director 1.0 torrent downloads, VMware VCloud Director 1.0 bittorrent download at largest torrent source with several listed files. (more)

  • Setting Up VMware vCloud Director Essentials – Part 2

    • In Part 2 of this two-part series, vExpert David Davis shows how to create a Provider Virtual … (more)

  • IBM Helps SCC Create Secure MultiTenancy Cloud

    • MSP News – Cutting edge insight and analysis on managed services, from the leading MSP news and information resource. (more)

  • The Open Source CEO: Jim Whitehurst

    • TechCrunch SM: Now that Amazon has blessed Eucalyptus, do you feel any pressure to divert resources away from OpenStack? JW: We actually announced last week that we have joined the OpenStack Foundation as a Platinum Member and will be continuing to invest … (more)

  • Ubuntu 12.04 Linux Focusses on the OpenStack Cloud

    • InternetNews.com By Sean Michael Kerner | April 27, 2012 On the cloud front, Ubuntu 12.04
    includes the OpenStack Essex release. The OpenStack support is a shift from what Ubuntu 10.04 offered with cloud support via the Eucalyptus project. Ubuntu shifted away from … (more)

  • The race to be the leading cloud platform

    • ZDNet (blog) OpenStack is gaining momentum in the cloud platform race. Eucalyptus is not standing still either. Since it is so early in the race, just about anyone could win in the end. Now that I’ve landed after a cross-country move, I have the opportunity to … (more)

  • e2b software Announces Private-Label Agreement with Epicor for Anytime

    • Collect … MarketWatch (press release) It’s the right product for our customers since it scales from small to large credit departments, is easy to use, available as a purchase or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription license, and deployed via the cloud or on-premise. (more)

  • Atomic Labs Renames to Cloudmeter and Closes $5 Million Series A Financing

    • San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Company to accelerate the development and marketing of its new Real User Monitoring as a Service offering, as well as continue development, marketing, and sales expansion of its current products Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) April 27, 2012 Cloudmeter … (more)

Daily Log News Feed – Apr 27, 2012

Daily aggregation of log management and SIEM news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.

Daily ITIL News Feed – Apr 27, 2012

Daily aggregation of ITIL news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.

  • Guest blog: Cloud bursting

    • Computer Business Review (blog) Tasks such as IT service management (ITSM), capacity planning and automation all need to be well under control before any expansion or migration into the cloud is considered. Automation of standard processes will ensure the department can provide and … (more)

  • So Del Brocket: NIST Aiming For More More Customer-Centric IT

    • ExecutiveGov Brocket said the new standards system, Information Technology Infrastructure Library, allows NIST to examine its processes in order to develop methods for … (more)

  • Cure IT ills with a holistic approach to management

    • Register It should also be noted that effective IT service management usually raises user satisfaction as service quality stabilises and IT is perceived as being more responsive to requests. Better still, research consistently highlights a clear correlation … (more)

  • itSMF UK Celebrates its 21st Birthday at 2012 Conference

    • Response Source (press release) The itSMF UK Conference and Exhibition is the world’s leading annual event for IT Service Management professionals, offering education and networking opportunities along with its highly popular annual awards dinner. The event mixes inspirational … (more)

  • IT Service Management

    • IT Service Management. A service can be defined as a means of dispensing value to consumers by facilitating outcomes that consumers want to accomplish … (more)

  • Blog gulfloctuca

    • IT-Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Richtlinienrahmen zur Gestaltung von IT-Prozessen : Die ITIL . IT-Service Management mit ITIL (Teil I): Service Support ITIL … (more)